TExES Reading Specialist (151): Study Guide & Test Prep Final Exam

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Question 11.Jim's daughter Kiana has mastered the skill of altering words by adding or taking away phonemes. An example that she told her dad was 'can' becoming 'tan' with the changing of /c/ to /t/. What level of phonological development is Kiana at?

Word Awareness

Syllable Awareness

Phoneme Awareness

Rhyme Manipulation

Question 22.Mr. Peters is trying to see what phonological skills his class of kindergarteners need more help with. He has been asking his students to make one word out of the words that he mentions. For instance, 'school' and 'bag' would become 'schoolbag'. One of the students keeps saying one part of the word instead of the full new word. What would this be an example of?

The student is having a hard time understanding that speech is made up of multiple words.

The student is having a hard time segmenting the words into onsets or rimes.

The student is having a hard time blending chunks or syllables of words.

The student is having a hard time identifying phonemes in words.

Question 33.Cindy was given an eraser for doing her homework five nights in a row by her parents. She likes getting a new eraser from her parents, and it makes her want to continue to do her homework. What is this an example of?

Positive Reinforcement

Negative Punishment

Negative Reinforcement

Positive Punishment

Question 44.Mr. Merger practices negative reinforcement in his classroom to get his students to do work. What would be an example of something that he would do for negative reinforcement?

He gives each of his students a bonus question on their next quiz.

He takes away their recess.

He gives the students a detention for bad behavior.

He takes away the lowest graded assignment.

Question 55.Mrs. Prater is teaching her students important reading skills to help them better comprehend what they are reading. She is using the Before, During, and After reading technique in her classroom. Of the following examples, what would be considered as part of the During reading aspect?

Answer questions about the overall text.

Have the students summarize and visualize what is happening in the text.

Make predictions of what is happening in the text.

Set a purpose for what they are learning.

Question 66.Mr. Preston has started to use graphic organizers in his lessons to help his students better organize their thoughts and also to remember the materials that they are learning. Which of the following lists of graphic organizers would be good to use when writing about characters?

Family tree, character sketch, dialectical journals

Sequence of events, event map, plot diagram

Plot diagram, character sketch, Venn diagrams

Sequence of events, family tree, Venn Diagram

Question 77.Mr. Albertson has noticed that one of his students, Ewan, has been reading words such as 'snack' as 'ssssnack' and is also reading 'red clown' as 'red cown'. What are the two articulation defects Ewan is exhibiting?

Addition and Substitution

Substitution and Omission

Distortion and Addition

Omission and Distortion

Question 88.Jimmy was placed into speech and language therapy a couple of years ago. This was because his parents realized that he was having hearing problems and took him to a doctor to get his hearing checked. Which type of language delay is Jimmy experiencing?

Environmental

Neurological

Physical

Situational

Question 99.Jimmy is in stage three of writing development. Out of the following examples of writing development, which fits the closest to a description of stage three?

Jimmy has very little control over the scribbles that he is making on the sheet.

Jimmy is beginning to form letters on the sheet of paper.

Jimmy's scribbles are beginning to look like letters, even if they aren't really letters.

Jimmy is beginning to realize that when he moves the crayon across the paper, it controls what he makes on it.

Question 1010.Jimmy's mother has been helping Jimmy by given him pencils, pens, crayons, and markers to experience what they feel like when he writes with them. Which of the stages of early writing is she helping him towards?

Stage three

None of the stages

Stage two

Stage one

Question 1111.

Use this conversation to answer the following question:

Teacher: Read the following sentence aloud: The boy walked to the store to buy a new toy.

Melinda: The boy walked to the store to buy a new boy.

Which of the following problems that children with dyslexia experience best describe what is happening with Melinda in the above example?

She can't recall verbal information in a short amount of time.

She is taking more time to process and recognize information verbally.

She has difficulty recognizing that the change of speech sounds changes the meaning of words.

She is having trouble recognizing the letters of the alphabet.

Question 1212.Ms. Tens has asked her students to give a list of words that would be considered domain-specific words. Out of the following lists given by her students, which would be the most correct?

Storm, clothing, vocabulary, sentence, kitchen, chicken

Example, summary, classify, read, write, add

Sentence, paragraph, essay, novel, word, comma, period

Walk, move, hand, fish, clothing, pencil, ball

Question 1313.Stephen has always benefited from creating songs to remember materials in classes. He has created songs to learn the bones in the body, created songs of Shakespeare's sonnets, and a song to remember the order of operations. Every time he is doing work, he is found humming along. He studies with music playing along in the background. What type of learning style is Stephen using?

Spatial

Auditory

Kinesthetic

Interpersonal

Question 1414.What out of the following syllable patterns is the most common, with more than half of English syllables being made up of them?

The Closed Pattern

The Vowel Teams Pattern

The Open Pattern

The R-Controlled Pattern

Question 1515.Tina has started to take in complete sentences of three or four words and is able to answer simple questions that her parents are asking her. What stage of oral language development does Tina fall into?

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